NYC firefighters and other city workers protest outside the mayor's residence as COVID-19 vaccination deadline quickly approaches.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday was set to announce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all municipal workers.Nearly all municipal employees, including police officers, sanitation workers and firefighters, have until 5 p.m. Friday to submit proof of receiving at least one dose of vaccine. Those who don't get vaccinated will be placed on unpaid leave, starting Monday, for at least 30 days, and their future employment will be resolved in negotiations with individual labor unions.
Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York President Andrew Ansbro previously told reporters that"a lot" of the union's members were"still struggling with making this decision." James McCarthy, president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, has also argued that the deadline, announced on Oct. 20, is"not enough time to make a retirement decision if you are going to retire from this job.
"My job is to keep people safe, my employees, and 8.8 million people, and until we defeat COVID, people are not safe," de Blasio said during a press briefing."If we don't stop COVID, New Yorkers will die. We must, must stop COVID and the way to do that is vaccination. And that must include our public employees."
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